Category: clothes

It’s May and May on Instagram is #memadeMay… the hashtag of awkward selfies and and beautiful handmade clothes. Combine this with soon-expiring stash-points from the Village Haberdashery and what do you get? Yup, flamingo pyjamas pants. And why not? Years and years ago I owned the most comfortable pair of pjs bottoms ever… they were […]

I literally stumbled upon this pattern whilst numbingly surfing Instagram when the school bus was late… how did I miss it before? You can buy the paper version from the website (Tessuti) or you can download it for free which has the double benefit of being immediately available – if you have that itch to […]

What can I say… if it ain’t broken… I love this pattern, (the Esme tunic/top, from this book by Lotta Jansdotter)… it fits me without having to make any adjustments, I can make it into a top (I made two) and a tunic/dress… just brilliant, the instructions are easy to follow (although not as detailed […]

This fresh off the needle little gem is the Martina Cardigan by ‘We are knitters’, and you can find the kit here. It comes complete with instructions, gorgeous wool and optional knitting needles. (btw I knitted a size S). With easy to follow instructions and clever construction, this is a great project for adventurous beginners […]

Yesterday I took a day off from ‘mum-things’ to do ‘me-things’ and attended a ‘Hush‘ clothing lunch in Bath with a friend. (We may or may not have popped into Anthropologie (sales!!!)… it depends if Mr M is reading this or not… Anthro? noooo not me… why, would I? Geesh.. or YEAH SALES! deep green […]

The new Plumo Spring catalogue dropped into my in box yesterday and I must say… it’s a good one! I always like their stuff, the clothes are a little off kilt and although some items can be quite expensive their sales are always very good if you can wait. I own a couple of […]

I know that this year’s colour is lavender but I can’t help by noticing yellow everywhere I look. It seems to me it’s a colour that has been ignored for a long while and now you can’t escape it. Yellow is the colour of the mind and of the intellect, it’s uplifting, illuminating, it inspires […]

I’ve made it through to the end of the 10×10 winter experiment. 10 Items to be worn for 10 days in different combination. 10 only. Including shoes. (Obvs not including underwear, pjs, accessories or working out gear or coats). You can see what I had selected here. And here are is what I wore; only […]

Do you believe love at first sight? I do. Or let me put it in a different way… you know how sometimes you see something or someone and it’s familiar… like you’ve seen before, or been there before… in another life or something. Not that I believe in reincarnation per se… but you know what […]

when you your son and his awesome hockey team become Under 16 National Indoor Champions 2018. and you cry of happiness in front of the computer screen you’ve been refreshing every two minutes because you’re not there to see it in person (I was holding the fort at home…) When people keep hanging lost […]